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centaur and the legs of the satyr Man, freed from "the lusts of the flesh," "from the excitements of passion," and "the mania of owning things" when he shall, through the travail of conditions, be born into his own, and know himself as One with God in that kingdom that is within himself.

The Nineteenth Century of the Christian Era, which is the one hundred millionth century of Man's gestating era, saw him freed from the tyranny of natural forces. When he first threw stone at wild beast he broke some limitations of space he reached farther than he could with his hand. This freedom has extended till now there is more than enough food, clothing and shelter, if equitably distributed, to feed, clothe and house every person in conditions equal to that of the average person of today. Thus he has conquered famine, pestilence, fire and flood, and he is making the desert blossom with rose and fruit tree. No matter what may come to individuals, the race has won its freedom here. The race is master of material environment, and can now turn its attention to the higher ideal. The Unfolding Soul demands new worlds to conquer.

I have seen in the incubator the chick with its head from the shell it then gradually puts the whole shell off, and I have imagined what its first sensation must be. It looks out in wonder. But greater is the wonder of Man. The wise Society of Psychical Research, after twenty-one years of investigation, has just got one eye out of the shell, and is looking in wonder as it reports that "out of the immense amount of material in its possession it has come to the conclusion that we, or some of us, at least, are in something, or something is in us, which does not know the bonds of time or feel the manacles of space." This something which does not recognize time and space is that which is emerging from the